After much work, I have finished this list with different types of amber sorted by there contries and location (Countries are listed in the order of what their youngest type of amber is). There may be types/mines I am not aware of and therefore missing - please contact me in order for me to make a complete list.

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The list contains amber mines in 38 countries

171 mines are listed

The 7 youngest types on the list is:

- Aceh (North Sumatra, Indonesia)

Lower Pliocene

- Tukau fm. (Sarawak, Malaysia)

Lower Pliocene

- Aukland Prov. (New Zealand)

Miocene-Pliocene

- Luzon Island (Phillipines)

Miocene-Pliocene

- Romania

Upper Miocene

- Yazov (Ukraine)

Upper Miocene

- Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia, Canada)

Lower Miocene-

Middle Miocene

The 7 oldest types on the list is:

- Mont Liban localities (Central Lebanon)

Lower Neocomian

- Moravska Trebova (Czechoslovakia)

Cretaceous

- Boskovice (Moravia, Czechoslovakia)

Cretaceous

- Golling (Salzbourg, Austria)

Lower Cretaceous

- Shaum’anowskij region (Azerbaijan)

Lower Cretaceous

- Suyfun basin (Primorye, Russia)

Lower Cretaceous

- Cortina d'Ampezzo,Dolomite (Southern Alps, Italy)

Lower Carnian–

Upper Ladinian

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Pictures ofdifferenttypes: A collection of pictures, which gives you the opportunity to get a sense of the different types of amber - their size, colour, texture, etc. You will also be able to use these images to confirm the authenticity of your own pieces, or compare the pictures and check the authenticity of various types of amber, for example on Ebay.

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Types of which I do not know the age and have not able to find further evidence about. If you can confirm the "existence" (age etc.) of the following amber, I would like to hear from you.

Denmark (Bornhom): middel jurassic?

Greenland (Disko Bay, Qerqertarsuatsiaq): Eocene? 35 myo? retinite found along the south-east and south-west parts of the country.

Massachusetts: before 1883 a 340 gram (12 oz.) specimen of amber was found on Nantucket Island in Tertiary greensand and marl formation.

Yorkshire: washed up on various beaches

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Indonesia

Aceh (North Sumatra)

Lower Pliocene

Jambi (Central Sumatra)

Miocene

Malaysia

Tukau fm. (Sarawak)

Lower Pliocene

Merit - Pila

Lower Miocene

New Zealand

Aukland Prov.

Miocene-Pliocene

Phillipines

Luzon Island

Miocene-Pliocene

Romania

Romania

Upper Miocene

Colti (Buzau)

Early Oligocene

Ukraine

Yazov

Upper Miocene

Klesov

Upper Eocene - Lower Oligocene

Dnepr River basin (Belorussia and Ukraine)

Upper Eocene

Verkhne - Sinevidnoe

Upper Eocene

Canada

Okanagan Highlands (British Columbia)

Lower Miocene-Middle Miocene

Eureka Sd Grp (Axel Heiberg + Ellesmere Island)

Eocene

Hat Creek (British Columbia)

Early - Middle Eocene

Nanaimo (Vancouver)

Early - Middle Eocene

Princeton (British Columbia)

Early - Middle Eocene

Wabamun Lake (Alberta)

Palaeocene

Edmonton (Alberta)

Maastrichtian

Grande Prairie (Alberta)

Maastrichtian

Cedar Lake (Manitoba)

Campanian

Foremost Fm. (Medicine Hat, Alberta)

Campanian

Dinosaur Prov. Park (Patricia, Alberta)

Campanian

Taber (Alberta)

Campanian

Grassy Lake (Alberta)

Upper Cretaceous

The Dominican republic

Bayaguana - El Valle

Lower Miocene

Santiago-P. Plata

Middle Oligocene - Miocene

Germany

Burghammer (Lausitz)

Miocene

Goitsche mine

Upper Oligocene - Lower Miocene

Bitterfeld

Upper Oligocene - Lower Miocene

Königsaue (Aschersleben)

Upper Eocene

Zwenkau (Leipzig)

Upper Eocene

Helmstedt

Middle Eocene

Leonhard (Geiseltal)

Middle Eocene

Latdorf - Nienburg

Eocene

Nietleben (Halle)

Eocene

Poland

Machów

Miocene

Parczew

Early Upper Eocene

Brazil

Pará

Miocene

Crato Fm. (Araripe)

Upper Aptian - Lower Albian

Australia

Cape York

Miocene

Italy /Sicily

Catania (Sicily)

Upper Oligocene

Cortina d'Ampezzo,Dolomite (Southern Alps)

Lower Carnian – Upper Ladinian

Mexico/Chiapas

Mexican amber (Chiapas - Simojovel)

Middle Oligocene - Miocene

Fruitland Fm. (San Juan Basin, New Mexico)

Campanian

Baja California (Mexico)

Campanian

Kazakhstan

Chilikty Fm. (Pavlodar)

Middle Oligocene

Uly-Zilansik River Basin

Oligocene

Korzhindy Fm. (Aral Sea)

Lower - Middle Oligocene

Siberia

Chulym-Enisey basin

Middle Oligocene

Tastakh Lake

Eocene

Bykovskaya Fm. (Lena Delta)

Palaeocene

Maymecha River

Santonian

Kiya and Simonovo Fm. (Chylym - Enisey)

Cenomanian - Turonian

Timmerdyakh Fm. (Yakutia)

Cenomanian - Turonian

Arctic Institute Islands (Karsk Sea, Taimyr)

Upper Cretaceous

Agapa river (Tajmyr)

Cenomanian

Russia

Rechnoy Peninsula (Tavrichanka)

Oligocene

Kantemirovka (Veronezh)

Lower Oligocene

Uglovka Fm. (Primorye)

Eocene - Oligocene

Avekova Fm. (Magadan)

Eocene - Oligocene

Kasyanovo (Veronezh)

Upper Eocene

Napan Fm. (Kamchatka)

Middle Eocene

Visloe (Belgorod)

Middle Eocene

Naiba River (near Urtay Creek mouth)

Palaeocene

Sakhalin Island

Palaeocene

Timmerdyankh - Khaya Hill (Yakutia

Maastrichtian - Danian

Yantardakh (Khatanga

Late Santonian

Baikura - Neru Bay (Taimyr)

Coniacian - Santonian

Kheta Fm. (Khatanga)

Coniacian - Santonian

Ledyanaya Fm. (Khatanga)

Turonian

Arkagala Fm. (Magadan)

Cenomanian - Turonian

Dolgan Fm. (Agapa)

Upper Cenomanian

Taimyrskoje lake (Taimyr)

Upper Cretaceous

Lena (Yakutia)

Upper Cretaceous

Baigul Fm. (Olov, Chita)

Upper Cretaceous

Begichev (Uts - Enisey)

Albian - Cenomanian

Khetana river (Khabarovsk)

Albian

Ogneva Fm. (Khatanga)

Aptian - Albian

Yakovleva (Taimyr)

Aptian - Albian

Stary Oskol (Belgorod

Aptian

Suyfun basin (Primorye)

Lower Cretaceous

Japan

Iwaidzumi-Iwate

Oligocene

Taneichi and Kunitan Fms. (Kuji)

Campanian

Tamagawa Fm. (Okawame - Kuji)

Late Cretaceous

Kimigahama Fm. (Nagasaki-Chõshi

Hauterivian

Tunisia

Ben Metir (Aïn Draham)

Oligocene or earlier

USA

Seattle (Washington, USA)

Eocene - Oligocene

Tiger Mountain Fm. (Issaquah, Washington)

Middle Eocene

Claibore Fm. (Acme, Malvern, Arkansas)

Middle Eocene

Malverne (Arkansas)

Eocene

Simi Valley (California)

Eocene

Lance Fm. (Niobrara, Wyoming)

Upper Maastrichtian

Hell Creek Fm. (Glendive, Montana)

Upper Maastrichtian

Laramie Fm. (Boulder, Colorado)

Upper Maastrichtian

Terlingua Formation (Brewster County, Texas)

Late Campanian -

Early Maastrichtian

Wainright (Alaska)

Campanian

Merchantville Fm. (New Jersey)

Santonian - Campanian

Arctic Coastal Plain and Foothills, Yukon Delta

Late Cretaceous

Arctic Coastal Plain and Foothills, Umnak Islands

Late Cretaceous

Arctic Coastal Plain and Foothills, Unalaska

Late Cretaceous

Arctic Coastal Plain and Foothills, Killik Bend

Late Cretaceous

Magothy Fm. (Maryland, USA)

Turonian - Coniacian

Raritan Fm. (New Jersey)

Turonian

Seward (Nebraska)

Upper Cretaceous

Ellsworth County - Kanopolis Lake (Kansas)

Albian - Cenomanian

Patuxent Fm. (Atlantic Coastal Plain)

Barremian

Samland

Palmnicken (Samland)

Upper Eocene

Sambian Peninsula ( Kaliningrad Oblast)

Upper Eocene

Baltic amber (Samland Peninsula)

Lower - Middle Eocene

China

Shansi Prov.

Middle - Upper Eocene

Kwangtung

Middle - Upper Eocene

Yungchang (Yunnan

Middle - Upper Eocene

Guchenzgi Fm. (Fushun, Liaoning)

Eocene

Argentina

Patagonica Fm. (Puerto Madryn)

Lower - Middle Eocene

Africa

Ameki Fm. (Umuahia - Bende, Nigeria)

Eocene

Ethiopia (Africa)

Cenomanian

Kirkwood Fm. (Eastern Cape Prov. South Africa)

Middle - Upper Valanginian

Austria

Gablitz (Wien)

Eocene

Viena and Salzburg

Hauterivian

Golling (Salzbourg)

Lower Cretaceous

France

Douzens (Aude)

Lower Eocene

Oise river, Le Quesnoy, Paris Basin

Lower Eocene

Corbie'res (Pirenean)

Danian

Bouches-du-Rhöne

Turonian

Angoulëmes (Aquitanian Basin)

Cenomanian

Anjou region

Cenomanian

Bezonnais, Durtal and Fouras

Cenomanian

Bezonnais, Durtal and Fouras

Cenomanian

Salignac (Alpes)

Cenomanian

Charente

Albian - Cenomanian

India

Vastan, Gujarat, Cambay

Lower Eocene

United Kingdom

London Clay Fm.

Palaeocene

Wessex Fm. (Isle of Wight)

Early Barremian

Amber in Dorset, Kent and Sussex

Valanginian

Spain

Vilada (Barcelona)

Maastrichtian

La Monjoya Fm. (Asturias)

Lower - Middle Cenomanian

El Caleyu Fm. (Asturias)

Lower Cenomanian

Ullaga Fm. (Asturias)

Upper Albian

Ensenada del Camello (Santander)

Albian

Escucha Fm. (Rubielos de Mora and others)

Lower - Middle Albian

Nograro Fm. (Pen‹acerrada)

Lower - Middle Albian

Reocín (Cantabria)

Aptian - Albian

Morella (Castelló)

Early Aptian

Azerbaijan

Gorchuchaj river (Laéinskij)

Coniacian

Mamalichay river basin

Coniacian

Adzikend

Cenomanian

Murovdag Range

Lower Cenomanian

Shaum’anowskij region

Lower Cretaceous

Armenia

Shawarshawan

Coniacian

Koti (Noemberyan)

Coniacian

Hungary

Ajka

Upper Cretaceous

Burma/Myanmar

Hukawng Valley (Myitkyina)

Cenomanian

Lebanon

Aabediyé (Central Lebanon)

Albian

Caza Aaley (Central Lebanon)

Upper Aptian

Hammana 3 (Central Lebanon)

Upper Aptian

Hadath El Joubbeh (Lebanon North)

Early Aptian

Hammana 3 (Central Lebanon)

Early Aptian

Jezzine 3 (South Lebanon)

Early Aptian

Mont Liban localities (Central Lebanon)

Upper Neocomian (Hauterivian)

Hammana 1 and 2 (Central Lebanon)

Middle Neocomian

Jezzine 1 and 2 (South Lebanon)

Middle Neocomian

Mont Liban localities (Central Lebanon)

Middle Neocomian

Quanat and Bcharre (North Lebanon)

Middle Neocomian

Mont Liban localities (Central Lebanon)

Lower Neocomian

Jordan

Wadi Zerka (Amman)

Albian

Syria

Bloudan

Hauterivian

Israel

Mont Hermon (Qiryat Chmouma)

Valanginian - Hauterivian

Czechoslovakia

Moravska Trebova

Cretaceous

Boskovice (Moravia)

Cretaceous

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Pictures of different types of amber

A collection of pictures which gives you the opportunity of getting a sense of the different types of amber.Their size, color, texture, etc. You will be able to use these images to confirm the authenticity of your own pieces, or to check the authenticity of various types of amber eg. on ebay by comparing the picures.

This collection of images has been developed in cooperation with collectors all over the world, and I am very grateful for all the help. It is nice being able to work together to disseminate the available knowledge about amber.